Debbie Gibson, Molly Ringwald and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Te show has been translated into 28 languages and staged in 34 coun- tries. “Tomorrow,” one of the most-performed songs in Broadway history, has been a concert staple for dozens of singers, including Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Grace Jones and Idina Menzel. A big-budget Hollywood adaptation first brought singing, danc-


ing Broadway Annie to the screen in 1982. Now the brand-new movie, starring Diaz, Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis as the lit- tle orphan, gives it a 21st-century spin. Te new movie updates the Broadway plot but keeps the Annie essentials: Annie, deserted by her parents, ends up in foster care with mean Miss Hannigan, who has taken in several girls as a way of paying the bills. Daddy Warbucks has morphed into Will Stacks (Foxx), a hard-nosed, self-made billionaire businessman running for mayor of New York. When Stacks pulls Annie from the path of a


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vehicle on a busy New York street and a photo of his “heroism” goes viral, his poll numbers spike—and Annie suddenly becomes an even bigger part of his campaign, and his life. Raised in a segregated sector of the small Texas town of Terrell,


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Foxx, 47, who was officially adopted by his maternal grandparents when he was 7 months old, understands a man like Stacks, who has had to make his own way in the world—because Foxx did, too. And while Stacks thinks he’s on the road to happiness with his wealth and his political prowess, he soon learns that what really matters is something else entirely. Foxx, whose movie résumé includes Django Unchained,Te Amaz-


ing Spider-Man 2 andWhite House Down, remembers one “hard- knock” Christmas in particular. “Te best gift I ever received was from my grandparents,” he says. “It was a Free Spirit, 10-speed,


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